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Andrzej Szczypiorski

アンジェイ・シュチピオルスキ

Andrzej Szczypiorski

Pen Names: Maurice S. Andrews(Pseudonym used for literary debut)

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1928-02-03 (Warsaw)
Died
2000-05-16 (Warsaw) age 72
Nationality
Polish
Languages
Polish
Religion
Calvinism
Residence History
Warsaw

Career

Occupations
novelist, politician, diplomat
Active Years
1952-2000
Affiliations
Solidarity, Polish Writers' Union
Memberships
Polish Writers' Union, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador

Education

Warsaw Consular Diplomatic Academy
Political science
Period: 1946-1947
Year of Graduation: 1947
Country: Poland
Also attended underground university

Awards

Austrian State Prize for European Literature
1988
Organization: Austrian Government
Result: 受賞
Nelly Sachs Prize
1989
Result: 受賞
Herder Prize
1994
Result: 受賞
Pour le Mérite
1995
Result: 受賞
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
1995
Organization: Federal Republic of Germany
Result: 受賞
Order of Polonia Restituta
1997
Organization: President of the Republic of Poland
Result: 受賞
Polish PEN-Club Prize
1972
Organization: Polish PEN-Club
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

A Mass for Arras

1971 novel

Historical novel set in medieval Arras

historymorality

Bibliography

  • The Past Time (1961)
  • Journey to the End of the Valley (1966)
  • A Mass for Arras (1971)
  • Three People On A Very Long Journey (1980)
  • The Origin (1986)
  • Night, Day and Night (1991)
  • Autoportrait with a Woman (1994)
  • Playing with Fire (1999)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
philosophicalhistorical
Recurring Motifs
warmoral dilemmas

Legacy

Prominent Polish novelist and Solidarity activist who contributed to post-war literature

Trivia

  • Collaborated with communist secret police during Stalinism
  • Partisan in Polish People's Army during Warsaw Uprising
  • Survived Sachsenhausen concentration camp